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This is cool. I imagine instructors creating instances for their classes so the whole class can engage with each other's notes.

I wonder if one could couple it with OCR so that you could point a phone at a page and drop into an emdash experience on the text that you've got a physical copy of. Or, you know, point it at your kindle so that your notes aren't locked into their ecosystem.

I'm building a backend that would support that kind of thing in a peer to peer kind of way (indexes content by piecewise hash so that you can recognize content you or your peers have annotations for and reattach those annotations despite differences in pagination, etc). If I ever get it into a demo-worthy state, I may reach out to see if we can make them work together.



Yes, I'd like to focus on more seamless ways to import your text and OCR is something I've considered.

Your content addressable system sounds very interesting, let me know when you have a demo.




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